Old Calabria [Audiobook] download free by Norman Douglas
- Listen audiobook: Old Calabria
- Author: Norman Douglas
- Release date: 2010/5/29
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781848851139
- Rating: 7.13 of 10
- Votes: 487
- Review by: Emmet Rife
- Review rating: 8.88 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 4H40M17S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPEG-4 DST, FLAC, MPEG4, MPC, WMA, MP3, Vorbis (compression EML, ZIP, RAR, CBC, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, CPIO)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M51S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Long familiar with southern Italy, the region captivated him and the wild and unspoilt landscape inspired him. Tracing a typically adventurous route from the promontory of Gargano in the north - linked in ancient times with Byzantium - to the southern tip of Aspromote, he scaled vast mountain ranges, trekked through dense forest and crossed remote and often dangerous countryside. Within Douglas' vibrant account of his adventures is woven the rich history - from Greek settlers and Roman conquerors to the powerful 'Ndrangheta organized crime family - that has shaped the land, language, culture and people of a place that Douglas grew to adore. Witty, erudite and elegant, 'Old Calabria' is a literary classic, acclaimed as much for its sparkling prose as for its exquisite portrait of Italy's most unpredictable and colorful province.
- Other categories, genre or collection: European History, Travel Writing, Social & Cultural History, Guidebooks, Classic Travel Writing, Anthologies (non-poetry)
- Download servers: Krakenfiles, Yandex.Disk, MEGA, Torrent, Mediafire, 4Shared, FileServe, Dropbox. Compressed in EML, ZIP, RAR, CBC, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, CPIO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.99 USD
- Dimensions: 129.54x198.12x22.86mm
- Weight: 340.19g
- Printed by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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